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  • An older child looking lovingly over her mother's shoulder as she breast feeds an infant. Etching after A. Correggio.
  • A father feeding his infant while the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1648.
  • A father feeding his infant whilst the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Pen drawing after A. van Ostade, 1648.
  • A father feeding his infant while the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1648.
  • A girl with a younger child on her lap: Emily and Laura Calmady. Engraving after Sir T. Lawrence.
  • A girl with a younger child on her lap: Emily and Laura Calmady. Engraving after Sir T. Lawrence.
  • A woman carrying a baby and holding the hand of her small child. Pencil drawing.
  • A woman carrying a baby and holding the hand of her small child in a bleak rural setting. Engraving.
  • A woman breastfeeding her child among her busy family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1786, after A. van Ostade.
  • The Virgin Mary seated on the lap of Saint Anne lifts up the infant Christ in order to place him on a wooden structure that Joseph has built for him. Process print after a drawing attributed to a member of the Roman school.
  • The Virgin Mary seated on the lap of Saint Anne lifts up the infant Christ in order to place him on a wooden structure that Joseph has built for him. Process print after a drawing attributed to a member of the Roman school.
  • A sick child sitting on her father's knee while her mother prepares some soup for her, a dead rabbit is lying on the floor. Chromolithograph after J. Clark.
  • A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.
  • A poor family praying before eating their simple evening meal. Mezzotint by W. Baillie, 1784, after A. Ostade.
  • A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • H.R.H. The Princess Louise, with many patients, nurses and doctors in a ward of the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, Chelsea. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles, 1876.
  • Elkanah and Hannah discuss the weaning of Samuel. Mezzotint by G. Graham, 1815.
  • The child Aaron being led away by Moses' father, after abandoning Moses in the bullrushes. Etching by C. Bouzonnet-Stella, 1672, after N. Poussin, 1654.
  • A postcard explaining precautions against AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A man wearing a pink watch holds a glass while embracing a woman also wearing a pink watch as a warning about the risk of AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • Virginia: costumes, customs, and dwellings of the native Americans. Engraving, 1732.
  • A native American holding a drum stick with feathers and decorative hangings with a list of ways you can and can't get AIDS; advertisement by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff, 1989.
  • Prevention of malnutrition: growth monitoring and promotion
  • A snobbish mother resistant to her daughter's doctor using a vaccine from their neighbour's child. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1872.